4-page original newspaper in very good condition. Durable and readable rag paper with stains. Previously bound and separated as a whole paper. Approximately 13"x21" .

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"RED JACKET DEPOSED" - FRONT PAGE CENTER - Complete Text of the Seneca Council of Six Nations renouncing Red Jacket as a Chief - the immediate cause was Red Jackets reaction to his wife's conversion to Christianity, his disgust at the event and consequent abusive conduct - Front Page - 10 Column Inches [NOTE - This was originally written in the Seneca language but was translated for publication in English by Dr. Jemison. Complete Text of this Front-Page item is as follows:

We, the chiefs of the Seneca tribe, of the Six Nations, say to you, Sa-go-ye-wat-ha (or Red Jacket), that you have a long time disturbed our councils ; that you have procured some white men to assist you in sending a great number of false stories to our father the president of the United States, and induced our people to sign those falsehoods at Tonnawanta as chiefs of our tribe, when you knew they were not chiefs ; that you have opposed

the improvement of our nation, and made divisions and disturbances among our people ; that you have abused and insulted our great father the president; that you have not regarded the rules which make the Great Spirit love us, and which make his red children do good to each other ; that you have a bad heart, because in a time of great distress, when our people were starving, you took and hid the body of a deer you had killed, when your starving brothers should have shared their proportions of it with you ; that the last time our father the president was fighting against the king aeross the great waters, you divided us âe" you acted against our father the president, and his officers, and advised with those who were not friends ; that you have prevented, and always discouraged our children from going to school, w they could learn, and abused and lied about our people who were willing to learn, and about those who were offering to instruct them how to worship the Great Spirit in the manner Christians do ; that you have always placed yourself before them who would be instructed, and have done all you could to prevent their going to schools; that you have taken goods to your own use. which were received as annuities, and which belonged to orphan children, and to old people; that for the last ten years you have often said the communications of our great father to his red children were forgeries made up at New York by those who wanted to buy our lands ; that you left your wife, because she joined the Christians, and worshiped the Great Spirit as they do, knowing that she was a good woman ; that we have waited for nearly ten years for you to reform and do better; but are now discouraged, as you declare you never will receive instructions from those who wish to do us good, as our great father advises, and induced others to hold the same language. We might say a great many other things, which make you an enemy to the Great Spirit, and also to your own brothers, but we have said enough, and now renounce you as a chief, and from this time you are forbid to act as such âe" all of our nation will after regard you as a private man, and we say to them all, that every one, who shall do as you have done, if a chief, will in like manner be disowned, and set back w he started from by his brethren. [Signed by 26 Chiefs]." - ] More.